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05-29-2011, 09:24 AM | #1 |
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'Colonel' Samuel F. Cody
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05-29-2011, 09:59 AM | #2 |
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Bianchi wrap-around grip for 'Borchadt-58' [sic] pistol???
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05-29-2011, 10:16 AM | #3 |
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I looked up a Sam Cody, who was a plane innovator.
Who is this guy, same one, but wild or? Ed |
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Sam Cody was a Wild West showman much like "Wild Bill Cody" and his Borchardt with the custom stock and grips is well known and has been pictured in several publications. I think most of his shows took place in England and Europe.
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Thank you and thanks for the photo, very nice.
I didn't think he looked like 'Wild Bill Cody" and didn't know of a Sam Col, Colonel or otherwise |
05-29-2011, 11:13 AM | #6 |
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Cody Borchardt
The gun was supposedly held by the Cody Family until 1996 and sold as "deactivated"...what a shame. Still, a rather dashing looking fellow. Reminds me of myself when younger..........Yea, I wish! Or, perhaps Ron W., when slightly younger...
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I think you mean 'Buffalo Bill Cody'. Are we confusing with 'Wild Bill Hickok' or creating a new composite historical character? -ML
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You are correct, I meant Buffalo Bill Cody...just another senior moment. However, the concept of creating a composite historical character is appealing.
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I think the gentleman of whom this thread is about already did this... I would very much guess that this is a stage name combining "Colonel Samuel Colt" and "Buffalo Bill Cody"
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...And that an auctioneer who hawked 1,000 auctions was honored with the title "Colonel"... This in addition to the wealthy landowner who outfitted a regiment in Antebellum times, and for doing so was conferred with the rank of "Colonel"... ...Ain't books great???...
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Samuel Franklin Cody
Apparently he took the name 'Cody' after Buffalo Bill. If you do a search on Wikipedia, pretty good background on him...quite an interesting character in his own right. I thought the pic was cool, probably one of few showing the Borchardt, I'm guessing. See:www.deactivated-guns.co.uk/detail/Borchardt.htm
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I seem to be having more and more of those 'moments' myself. -ML
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I recently picked up a book at a garage sale about one of Buffalo Bill's contemporaries, Pawnee Bill. As a kid I wondered why Barnum and Bailey circus had all the wagons with the Native Americans and frontier scenes carved on them and this book answered that long ago question. Pawnee Bill had a show as famous as Buffalo Bills and he was the one who commissioned and used the wagons. As his show drifted away Buffalo Bill bought the wagons and further down the road Barnum and Bailey became the owners. You can see them in the movie with Charlton Heston.
Buffalo Bill took in Pawnee Bill during his last years. Another good older book on Buffalo Bill was written by Murat Halstead who was a very popular writer of the times. Many years ago I bought some antique stacking book shelfs from an older gentleman. I also bought some of the nicer looking older books as we removed them from the cases. A few years later I got around to reading this beautiful red leather covered book about Admiral Dewey written by Murat Halstead. As I closed the book, for the first time I notice the gold lettering on the cover It said, from "Murat Halstead, the author to my good friend Admiral George Dewey." It turned out to be Admiral Dewey's presentation copy. Fun find. |
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